On Wed, 10 Mar 1999, Michael Sobolev wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 10, 1999 at 10:35:06AM +0000, Stephen Turner wrote:
> > I think Russian has the same problem, but I think
> > the translator was somehow able to use a generic form of the plural in that
> > case.
> Unfortunately, no. :)  For certain numbers messages do not look Russian. :)
> 

Is there an implicit assumption that negative floors are always divisible by
10 then? That would not be completely unreasonable.

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